Why Jennifer Lawrence should not be the media’s poster girl for curves

By Hollywood standards, Jennifer Lawrence is considered curvy, and the media celebrates the Hunger Games star for her “curvy” figure, but this is something that plus-size model Ashley Graham has taken issue with.

Graham, who has modeled for Elle and Vogue, opened up about body image during an interview with Net-a-Porter’s online magazine The Edit, where she explained that Hollywood needs to embrace and celebrate women with fuller frames.

“I think that you can be healthy at any size and my goal is to help and educate women on that,” she explained. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a size 2 or 22 as long as you’re taking care of your body, working out and telling yourself ‘I love you’ instead of taking in the negativity of beauty standards.”

“I love you” is something Graham is definitely telling her body, as she opens up about her size, saying, “It’s not about conforming; it’s a size I feel good at. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off.”